Thursday, March 2, 2017

40 days. Go.

Ready to draw inside in quiet contemplation and to
look with a new vantage at this great big world.

Feeling, this year, worn down by discord, hatred and
fear meted out in bomb threats (two this week),vitriol on social media and heartbreaking
stories of severed, longtime relationships over political divide.

Needing Lent.

Needing Lent this year.

I am ready.

At Wednesday’s service at the Cathedral, Dean Pinder
talked about opening our hearts and letting ego spill out in Lent.

He made his hands
like a giant clam shell, pried them open and then dumped ego out on to the
floor.

He showed us how to make the sign (language) for “wretched”
(make your hands in to two gnarled fists framing the ugliest face you can make)
and then we sang, softly, “Amazing Grace” as we prayed for God’s healing of our
hearts.

We remembered that we are dust, and to dust we shall
return.

And then I came home to this gem, copied below:

It shall be a Holy Lent, indeed.

Rend Your Heart: A Blessing for Ash Wednesday

-Jan Richardson

To receive this blessing,

all you have to dois let your heart break.Let it crack open.Let it fall apartso that you can seeits secret chambers,the hidden spaceswhere you have hesitatedto go.

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